An Adobe AIR application that brings the ColdFusion 8 documentation to your desktop that is surprising small, easy to use, extremely fast, and built using the Ext JavaScript library.
Get a quick primer on Gears, the open source project by Google that aims to expose new modules and capabilities for the browser that provide general purpose building blocks for web applications to unlock the capabilities of the local machine in a safe manner.
Interested in Adobe AIR? Check out this brief new technologies demonstration I gave on Adobe AIR to my colleagues at Hamilton College.
Hand on Flex training will be happening not too far from Central New York this weekend at Montclair State University in NJ. This is two days of training, $75 for each day, which will consist of a full day of training by Farata Systems on Friday 9/26 and then traditional sessions on Saturday 9/27.
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Adobe announced the latest versions of their most popular software packages, bundled as Adobe Creative Suite 4. Some of the cool new features include the content-aware resizing features in Photoshop, code-hinting for JavaScript (including hinting for your favorite library/framework) and photoshop smart objects in Dreamweaver, and more.
Borrowing some code & ideas from Pete Freitag’s CFIMAGE presentation; this is a rather simple, safe, and easy way to upload photos using a User-Defined Function in ColdFusion. Uploading files is very straight forward in ColdFusion, but I like this function because it takes care of all the little details, so I can concentrate on working with the file afterwards, and moving to the next iteration when programming.
Read MoreThats right, you can get Flex Builder 3 Professional for education for free if you qualify.
Read MoreI have been using CFFTP to successfully implement a file browser that easily enforces local file/folder permissions because the CFFTP client connects and authenticates as the user that is logged in. It was really quite simple and straightforward (thanks CF!). However…
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